Written by Gabriel Serrano Denis
A good filmmaker always injects a certain amount of humor into the most frightening horror movies. Yes, we mostly remember creepy killing or highly tense moments, but soon, we have to laugh with the Regan we have Exorcist It’s funny when she laughs at Father Karas (the devil even jokes in Latin!). And, don’t forget Annie Brackett John Carpenter‘ Halloween. He waited for her to be fully dressed, then was in her car, and decided to kill her later.
Osgood Perkins Published one of the most intensive and blatant Satanic movies of the 2020s Long legsbut even in that evil mist, a dead comedy would occasionally crawl in. Nicholas CageThe performance without a doubt will also cause chills and strange, uncomfortable laughter, and Maika MonroeEmotionally unconscious behavior meets her outspoken and blunt and plays with Canny’s comedy timing Blair Underwood. All of the aforementioned movies are as far away as Perkins’ new movie monkey It is made up of a serious horror nightmare. These characters do live creepy nightmare, but Perkins is more interested in the absurdity and arbitrary nature of death. This opens the door to some very, very bloody and cruel comedy.
based on Stephen King short story, monkey Establishing the massacre will quickly introduce the titular tangled toy monkey that will haunt the entire generations, with drums about to die in one of the best openings in the horror movies in recent memory. I don’t want to spoil it here, but it sets an ingenious creepy tone almost immediately. When the monkeys are inherited by the twin brothers abandoned by their father, they begin a series of deaths that will affect their relationship and their perception of life. A few years later, as the monkey appears to be defeated (or temporarily dormant), Hal (Theo James) lives a cautious and deleted life, alienated from his twin brother (also James) and from his son Peter (Colin O’Brien). That is, until the monkey surfaces with death.
“Entertainment” is not any word I comfortably describe any recent output from Perkins, but monkey Of course, it does fit the descriptor. Perkins freely changed the narrative of the short story, but kept the central theme to use his own emotions and lively editing to create some truly outrageous killings. Violence is Final destination Kindness – As the movie goes on, the freak accident gets worse. But the tongue is firmly on the cheeks, monkey Through impressive practical effects, clever photography and cruel stripes tell the audience that none of this should be taken seriously, which doubles the ridiculous effect and cruel winning streak. It seems almost inhumane that the support character is introduced to be torn apart only in creative fashion, while the main character reacts to death with a shock of death.
This method of death against extreme, violent death is a stylistic thriving further enhances the absurdity of the film, but it also strips true emotional characters. The first half of the film focuses on the younger version of the siblings, the discovery of the demon monkey and suffered horrible losses at a young age, but it also explores their differences and personal conflicts. This makes the brothers livelihood and makes comedy even harder. A very wonderful turn also occurred in the first half Tatiana Mashlany As a mother of a boy. Her interactions with the boy were fun, performed excellent comedy timing and provided an emotional center for moving forward. Once the movie jumps to today, she will miss her a lot. Even if Theo James stepped in, offering two surprising performances, despite the highly shaped and well-effected on the top, the murders took up anything other than shocking laughs, with little room for anything else.
The premise and weird mix of town horror and weird cursed objects is pure kingdom territory, but monkey It’s a movie by Osgood Perkins. At this point, the writer-director has proven to be a single voice in the horror genre, an example of filmmakers engaging in other people’s work and making their own entirely. Perkins brings monkey Many things about work Long legsincluding editing Greg Nog and Graham Fortinand pushes the extremes of dark comedy, just as he pushes the limits of fear in early films. But this time he proved to be a better visual filmmaker, because unfortunately his adaptation has a proper cunning view of the randomness of death, which means to himself. despite this, monkey It is a moody, extremely fashionable and mean horror comedy with no fist in terms of violence and cruelty. It may not offer more, but when bleeding is this grand, filmmaking is much more than just making up for the shortcomings.
